Day 31: Sam Houston National Forest (West of New Waverly TX) to Silsbee TX

We left camp this morning without a plan... always a bad idea. 


Well I did what I did not want to do…  at 55 miles Sandy and I met for lunch and it was clear from the conversation, I was going 100 mile today.  Last night we tried to figure out a place to stop and we found nothing and that was the truth.  Sandy stopped for groceries in Coldspring TX about 35 miles into the ride and from there we saw nothing until Kountze TX at mile 95.  We ended up in a camp site outside of Silsbee TX, 102 miles for camp this morning. 

Along the way I caught up to the disciples, Paul and John.  They left camp this morning at about 7AM a full two hours ahead of me.  They stopped in Coldspring and we met up in town.   We road together until lunch when I stopped, and they headed on.  I keep thinking I won’t see them again but who knows.  I think with the 100 miles today I am ahead of them.

There was nothing special about today’s ride, dull miles.  There were no small towns or interesting buildings, just miles of farmland and cows.  There was one water tower picture to add to the collection. The pictures for today are minimal…


For the ride, winds were very friendly all day helping me along.  There was one stretch of road from Thicket TX to Kountze TX of 12 miles that was perfectly straight.  

The long and straight path

Thank god the wind was helping; this would have killed me to plow into headwind. 

Ride Stats…

Start Time: 8:54 AM Central Time            Finish Time: 4:05 PM Central Time

Elapse Time: 7 Hr. 9 Min.                          Ride Time: 6 Hr. 26 Min.

Distance:  102.2 Miles                                Average Speed: 15.9 mph

Climbing/Descent: 2300/2579 Ft.               TSS: 220

Average Power: 175 Watts                          Normalized Power: 184 Watts

Calories: 4054                                              Ave/Max HR: 116/133 bpm

For food today, I had a ham sandwich at lunch with a banana and Gatorade. Before lunch I had four Oreo cookies and after lunch, I had two more Oreo’s and a Cliff Bar.  For water, I had one water bottle all day.  It was cold and I had to force myself to drink. 



Tomorrow will be a big day…  we leave TX and move into Louisiana.   The border is about 50 miles away and we will not go much further, I hope. 

Comments

  1. Gregg and ValMarch 19, 2021 at 5:19 PM

    Congratulations on that century ride! And you were moving pretty good too!

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  2. Paul SteenwykMarch 20, 2021 at 6:01 AM

    Glad to see you made it to a camp spot! We saw you flying past at Honey Island, and figured you were doing the full 100.

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  3. FishwifeMarch 20, 2021 at 10:15 AM

    New cardboard ❤️

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  4. Uncle RatfinkMarch 20, 2021 at 5:04 PM

    Lip looks sore.

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